"The Angel" by Uri Bar-Joseph covers one of the most thrilling espionage stories of the 20th century: the remarkable life and suspicious death of Ashraf Marwan, a high-ranking Egyptian official who secretly worked for Israel's Mossad. As the son-in-law of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and a close advisor to his successor, Anwar Sadat, Marwan had access to his country's most sensitive secrets. But Marwan had a secret of his own: he was a spy for Mossad. Known to his handler as "The Angel," he turned Egypt into an open book and saved Israel from a devastating defeat by providing advance warning of the joint Egyptian-Syrian attack in the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

Marwan managed to evade Egypt's formidable secret police for decades, enjoying a lavish lifestyle until it came to an abrupt end in 2007 when he was found dead in the garden below his London apartment. Police suspected he was thrown from his fifth-floor balcony, but the case remains unresolved. To this day, little has been revealed about his mysterious life. Based on meticulous research and exclusive interviews, "The Angel" is the first book to explore Marwan's motives for spying, how his identity was exposed by none other than the former head of Israeli Military Intelligence, and how the information he provided was both used and misused. The book sheds light on the modern history of the Middle East and the critical role of human intelligence in shaping the fate of nations, answering the questions surrounding Marwan's legacy: who was he truly betraying, and who killed him?

• Publishing House: Arab Scientific Publishers/Lebanon
• Number of Pages: 367
• Year of Publication: 2017